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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Charles Jones, Cillian O'Hogan, Croman mac Nessa,
Francis Deblauwe, Donna Hurst, Glenn Meyer,John Hall, John Hill,
John McMahon, Jonathan Keough, ma'at, Maurice O'Sullivan, Mata
Kimasitayo,  Michael Oberndorf, Mark Morgan, Rochelle Altman,
Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A 'state of the question' piece on Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4251299.stm

Some 10 000 b.p. "engravings" in a Somerset cave:

http://tinyurl.com/69hgt (Eurekalert)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6929845/
http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2005/622
http://tinyurl.com/5d7so (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Britain-Cave.html

... while petroglyphs in Libya are threatened by oil exploration:

http://tinyurl.com/3ncsb (Guardian)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4788

An 8000 b.p. tool-making site from northern Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=156287

Oldest site (7000 b.p.) ever excavated in the UAE:

http://tinyurl.com/5smh5 (Khaleej Times)

Brief item on the discovery of 4th millennium B.C./B.C.E.
settlements in Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/5jlu2

Some 3000 b.p. bits of pottery have been found in northern
Iran, spurring hopes of finding bigger things:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=155584

I keep forgetting to mention this discovery of a 'salt man'
from Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=149500

A roundup of recent discoveries in Egypt (many are repeats):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=4186_0_1_0_M

A sort of roundup piece on the eighth season of excavation at
the Burnt City (Iran):

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=156290

David Packard wants to save Herculaneum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1482342,00.html

An intact Roman wooden coffin was found in London:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1473382,00.html

Analysis of those bones of a 'leper' found by Shimon Gibson
a while ago are the basis of an argument that TB wiped out
leprosy:

http://tinyurl.com/59n8w (Eurekalert)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4244467.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6986

A fair bit of coverage of some sites exposed by the tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/4r4cu (FIP)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4257181.stm
http://www.terradaily.com/2005/050211054755.hgzn6k0t.html

Several grains of cultivated rice dating to 12000 b.p. (!)
have been found in China:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-2-12/26388.html

The Chinese were using diamonds to polish stone axes some
2500 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/4rwa4 (Eurekalert)

They're still looking for the Sleeping Buddha:

http://tinyurl.com/4ml9l (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/6kjbl (Pioneer Press)

... and that 'lost city' in Malaysia:

http://tinyurl.com/4buo8 (Star)
http://tinyurl.com/4426t (Star)

A Bronze Age site from Vietnam:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050210/ap/d885g4eg2.html

Medical detectorists have found a pair of medieval love rings:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART26227.html

I can't remember if we've mentioned this before ... forensic
guys with a pile of time on their hands have recreated what
Jesus looked like as a child:

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_039122334.html

Interesting item about a mummified cat from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/4knbj (Independent)

An "ancient" (ca. 1352) swimming pool was "stumbled" upon by
labourers in Cairo this week:

http://tinyurl.com/43eyn (AFP via Yahoo)
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THE AMERICAS
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A Chinook site near Vancouver (WA) is delaying highway
construction:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6928819/
http://tinyurl.com/587cd (Missoulian)
http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/02/07/area_news/news03.txt

Archaeologists are trying to figure out a Hampton site:

http://tinyurl.com/6njzb (Daily Press)

They're still looking for Angola:

http://tinyurl.com/5wt74 (St. Pete Times)

Touristy thing on Mayan ruins near Cancun:

http://tinyurl.com/3z68a (CNN)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Some revisionism for David I of Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/32931.html

... and Macbeth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/08/arts/08arts.html

... and St. Patrick:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1482222,00.html

Michael Wood on Arthur:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=142092005

Al-Ahram has a touristy thing on the Siwa Oasis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/728/tr1.htm

They're still trying to figure out why an Achaemenid city
of Dahaneh-gholaman was abandoned:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4732

They're still fighting over the remains of homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/56qbt (Age)

Interesting item on animal mummies from Egypt:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6989

A brief history of Colchester (and its chariot track, and
other things):

http://tinyurl.com/4aerm (Reuters)

Gold jewellery found in a Mycenean tomb last year will be
analyzed to see if there is any connection to the Argonaut
myth:

http://tinyurl.com/58evj (Kathimerini)

An interview with Jean Perrot, all about Jiroft:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/feb/1078.html

They've traced the origins of the Hope Diamond:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6946421/
http://tinyurl.com/5qdwy (AP via Yahoo)

The New Yorker has an interesting article about Margaret
Yourcenar:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?050214crbo_books

Lincoln's birthday last week occasioned some interesting items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/national/12beliefs.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4495619

If you've ever wondered what drives television documentaries,
this should give you an idea:

http://tinyurl.com/44dg8 (Daily Star)

A 'state of the saga' piece on Temple Mount:

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=20094

Eritrea is the latest nation to demand repatriation of items
taken from her in ages past:

http://www.misna.org/news.asp?lng=1&;id=128534

... while Sweden has returned a piece of the Erechtheion to
Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/4c9xk (Kathimerini)

La Sapienza is celebrating its 700th anniversary:

http://tinyurl.com/6bfev (AGI)

An artist has figured out how the lost kin gin mokumegane metal
working process worked:

http://tinyurl.com/4bjet (Japan Times)

Rhodes' mayor is (again) yakking about restoring the Colossus:

http://tinyurl.com/5o5vc (AFP via Yahoo)

That tin of Roman face cream is in the news again for some
reason:

http://www.discover.com/web-exclusives/maximus-factor0207/

Indiana U has reinstated its summer archaeology program in
Israel:

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2923527&;nav=0Ra7WAU2

All about the Shao-lin monastery:

http://tinyurl.com/4zuj6 (NYT)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Smithsonian Magazine has an interesting article on some Bronze
Age monoliths in Mongolia (hard to explain this one succinctly):

http://tinyurl.com/6mmfc
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ON THE WEB
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The Bible and Interpretation site is back up and running:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Frontinus (trans. R.H. Rodgers), *On the Water Management of
Rome*:

http://www.uvm.edu/~rrodgers/Frontinus.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Some gaming pieces were among the items illegally excavated
from Jiroft recently:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=155236
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_5630.shtml

This one was mentioned on the ANE list ... it's a webcast of
a lecture at Berekeley detailing the state of looting and
smuggling of Mesopotamian sites (not sure how long this will
be available):

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.html?event_id=182

Tomb robbers beat archaeologists to a 2000 b.p. tomb in China:

http://tinyurl.com/5jo8l (Australian)

A law which would have given amnesty to Italians in possession
of illegal antiquities was defeated this week:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=02b93a4195a94c70

Some guy in Israel is fighting extradition to Russia for his
role in theft of assorted historical artifacts:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/539007.html

Much out of our period of purview, but an interesting bit of
comparanda for folks following the various forgery disputes:

http://tinyurl.com/4rpot (AP via Yahoo)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Guy Maclean Rogers, *Alexander: The Ambiguity of Greatness*:

http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2005/02/12/929404.html

John Mack Faragher, *A Great and Noble Scheme:The Tragic Story
of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American
Homeland*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/books/09grim.html

Sylvie Weil, *My Guardian Angel* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13CHILDRE.html

Louise Welsh, *Tamburlaine Must Die* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13TAYLORL.html

Marilyn Monroe and the Bronte sisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/09/books/09bios.html

An English Talmud:

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/10/books/10talm.html

Five books on Abelard and Heloise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/13NEHRING.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Arianna in Creta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/12/arts/music/12cret.html

Shylock:

http://tinyurl.com/4ry3a (Shylock)

Electra:

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-09/stage2.html

Prometheus Bound:

http://tinyurl.com/4max9 (Tribune)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The annual errorfest that tries to connect Valentines Day to
the Romans naturally reached full force this week:

http://www.dailypilot.com/opinion/story/3077p-4440c.html
http://tinyurl.com/5w57s
http://tinyurl.com/6sb3t
http://tinyurl.com/4ugrx
http://tinyurl.com/6hs2o
http://tinyurl.com/5bl7y
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=28294
http://tinyurl.com/5dfcw

More Atlantis stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/5syrg (Orlando Sentinel)
http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=47469&;src=0

... with charges of plagiarism?:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=47471&;src=0

Jesus was Caesar ... or was it vice versa?:

http://tinyurl.com/6jouu (Press Release)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Rubens and Twombly:

http://tinyurl.com/5atp8 (NY Metro)

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/63nmn (Democrat Gazette)

Kazakhstan will show off another 'gold man':

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&;id=68054

Assorted antiques news, including recognition of increased
interest in German antiques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Nefertiti is getting new digs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/11/arts/11arts.html?pagewanted=2
(scroll down)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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There's a Classical revival going on ... in architecture:

http://nytimes.com/2005/02/10/garden/10clas.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/10/features/classic.html

An Indian journalist finds inspiration in Virgil:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=64170

An update on HBO's 'Rome' series:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/39521.htm

Michael Cosmopoulos lectures on the historicity of the Trojan
War:

http://www.thecurrentonline.com/news/855187.html

Interesting comparison of Attic and Indian drama:

http://tinyurl.com/5zuuq (Telegraph)

More coverage of Scarborough:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/10887564.htm

An Odyssey performance of sorts:

http://tinyurl.com/54bg9

Ides stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/4nm4o (Town Online)

Hanniabal's Epic March Across the Alps:

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blhannibalrome/

Roman numeral stuff:

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/020805/b0108baird.html

That Hebe statue in Roseburg is in the news again:

http://tinyurl.com/5nntt (Statesman Journal)

Shadow of Rome (game review):

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,66539,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Barbara Craig

http://tinyurl.com/6psec (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1474694,00.html
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REPEATS
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Science and Biblical Relics:

http://www.dailybreeze.com/today/articles/1255582.html
http://tinyurl.com/5h7gw (Argus)
http://tinyurl.com/53teq (Tribune)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):
http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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